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How Can Droplet-Based Generators Improve Fabrication Strategies?

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There are devices harvesting water motion energy on a particular surface like triboelectric nanogenerators, and from water droplets. Read to know more.

Aug 29, 2022

Optical detection of multiple bacterial species using nanometer-scaled metal-organic hybrids

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Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have developed a simple, rapid method to simultaneously identify multiple food poisoning bacteria, based on color differences in the scattered light by nanometer-scaled organic metal nanohybrid structures (...

Aug 29, 2022

New graphene-enhanced asphalt installation in Chelmsford, Essex

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Earlier this month, Iterchimica and Jean Lefebvre (UK) installed a Gipave modified HRA (Hot Rolled Asphalt) 35/14 Surface Course in Chelmsford, Essex. Gipave is a graphene-enhanced polymer additive, which due to its thermal management properties, ...

Aug 29, 2022

Levitating Nanoparticles Now Possible, How Did Physicists Do It?

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In a newly published paper, physicists revealed that they were able to levitate nanoparticles. To know more about this milestone, continue reading this post.

Aug 29, 2022

Glass nanoparticles show unexpected coupling when levitated with laser light

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A team of researchers at the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Duisburg-Essen have found a new mechanism that fundamentally alters the interaction between optically levitated nanoparticles. Their experime...

Aug 29, 2022

H2S Gas Sensor Highly Responsive Even at Low Concentrations

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A paper printed in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds reported a microscale hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas sensor using a 2D-0D heterostructure based on MOSe2/ZnO. The MOSe2/ZnO nanocomposite was synthesized using a unique complementary metal oxide s...

Aug 29, 2022

Impact of Nanoparticles on Soybean Oil-Based Biodiesel Examined

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Global energy production relies heavily on fossil fuels, which are depleting rapidly and are also regarded as the primary source of harmful emissions and climate change. As a result, there is an urgent need to develop green energy sources that can...

Aug 29, 2022

Properties of Ferrimagnetic Nanoparticles Vary with Wet Chemical Synthesis

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In an article recently published in the journal Powder Technology, researchers discussed different wet chemical synthesis techniques for ferrimagnetic nanoparticle creation and their impact on the surface shape and magnetic characteristics.

Aug 29, 2022

Nanoparticles Made from Industrial Waste Remove Water Pollutants

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Due to their harmful and toxic impacts on many living things, metal ions such as chromium (VI) in industrial wastewater are becoming a major environmental concern. A recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports tackles this problem by ...

Aug 29, 2022

Porous Carbon Nanofibers Aid Design of Practical K Metal Batteries

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As an alkali metal electrode for emerging electrolytic energy storing devices, potassium (K) is an attractive substitute for lithium. Unfortunately, potassium utilization is hampered by dendrite formation and volumetric fluctuations during cycling.

Aug 29, 2022

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